Linux, Oh My Crap
by anderson on Jan.25, 2010, under Random Stuff
I’ve been using Linux or Unix in some form or another for at least 10 years now, but before I delve into the specifics of for what and which distributions, let me just stop and get to the point.
The point is that I setup a home media server, because I figured it would be awesome. A machine to stream and play music and movies and that would generally be pretty awesome. So I bought the hardware, put the pieces together and started to look around for solutions.
My machine is currently powered by Ubuntu and XBMC.
However this is probably about to change soon for the plethora of idiotic little headaches this machine is giving me. Let me assure you that I have RTFM’d (is that even a phrase anymore?), I’ve exchanged hardware, I’ve compiled and recompiled and all to no avail. The black shuttle box in my living room is not the two tons of awesome I set out to build (so that technically makes two black boxes in the living room that are not living up to expectations).
Over the last few months, I’ve had help fixing the machine from a friend, but through a misconfiguration, I accidentally ran an automated update which broke the sound on the machine once more. I’ve spent the better part of three weeks trying to restore it now and feel that I am close to the goal line. Sound works now, except in video playback in XBMC. So hopefully soon I’ll be good to go and will be able to watch a movie or two. I can’t wait to stress off after all this Ubuntu induced nonsense.
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January 26th, 2010 on 1:35 pm
You made a fair point, but have you really thought about how it may affect other people? I’m not saying you’re wrong, I just need to point out that there’s more than one side to this story. (gotta love these spam comments)
January 29th, 2010 on 2:47 pm
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